Preview Helldivers 2 Utterly Revels in Its Chaotic Bug Battles
Hands on with Sony's new shooter.
The jury's still out on whether Sony's live-service push will prove fruitful or not, but Helldivers 2 at least gets it off on the front foot. The satisfying addictiveness of the Arrowhead Game Studios follow-up will see it fit perfectly in a rotation of other online and single player titles, circumventing the pull of another game you might lose all your free time to. Always eager to fit one more skirmish in, new equipment and evolving planets will keep you coming back for more. Get a group of friends onboard and Helldivers 2 proves just as consistently enjoyable as it is an evolutionary sequel.
We recently had the chance to sample roughly three hours of the multiplayer bug-fest at a London preview event, which revealed how Helldivers 2 plays on both a planet's surface and up in the stars aboard your own spaceship. Our hands on session picked up right in the thick of the action, skipping the tutorial and any tongue-in-cheek story setup. We finished multiple missions across a few different planets and then took the time to fine-tune the weapons and items available in our next assignment by spending currencies and unlocking upgrades. This is the main loop you'll go through during play and it's what makes pushing your bedtime back for one more round so enticing.
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